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[โ€“] killwill@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah this guy is grossly overestimating the intelligence of businesses when it comes to software. I've seen a major company spending 20000+ a month on aws for servers they never used. And that was just for a single site, I can only imagine what's going on in other branches of the company.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Not at all, Google, Meta, and MS spend a lot of resources resetting passwords across literally tens of millions of accounts. It ads up at scale, and it's not even insignificant at the enterprise level.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-true-and-surprising-cost-of-forgotten-passwords/